Women in the kibbutz

How do women act when they arefreed from most household chores,economically independent of theirhusbands, and have been living apartfrom their children from the time thechildren were approximately fourweeks old? Given equal and similarsocial circumstances, do men andwomen behave in the same way inpolitics? the economy? warfare? lsequality of the sexes a viable concept,after all? Two important social scientists haveasked these questions of and aboutthe women in that provocative humanexperiment, the Israeli kibbutz. Theconclusions are startling. The result is amajor and myth exploding contribution to the literature of feminism and ofutopias. Based on the lives of 34,040kibbutz dwellers, and supported bytables, graphs, interviews, and elaborate computerized data, WOMEN INTHE KIBBUTZ provides the facts essential for a discussion, which has beenuntil now all too rhetorical, of howwomen everywhere want to live adiscussion set amid the current controversies about sex, gender, nature,and power. Here is a book that maychange the very rules of discussionabout men and women..